Great, if you like a lot of action.

Rating: 5/10 (15 January 2006)

I found "The Island" to be a reworking of "Logan's Run" with a lot more action, special effects and a few twists added. The basic premises and setting are very much alike: people living in a sheltered environment, raised to conform, and promised "re-birth" as an end reward. As in "Logan", the main characters escape to explore the outside world and there they discover they've been duped. Even the final sequence is lifted directly from "Logan".
Although I prefer "Logan's Run", this film was fairly well-done and kept my interest throughout. Since I'm not a fan of action films, I found those sequences a bit overly long but resisted the urge to fast-forward through them. Where "Logan" has that cheesy 70's feel, "The Island", in my opinion was a bit too gimmicky. However, the characters were well-developed, and the script well-written.